Mazlum (''maẓlūm'') is an Arabic term for "oppressed, ill-treated, injured, sinned-against" (the antonym being ''ẓālim'' "oppressor"; root ''ẓlm'' "to oppress"). In Shiism, the term adopted a meaning of "pietistic" tolerance, given as a byname to

Husayn ibn Ali Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...

, who was killed in the Battle of Karbala. The term is used for a person who is unwilling to act against an injustice, not out of cowardice but out of generosity or forbearance.Hamid Enayat, ''Modern Islamic Political Thought'', I.B.Tauris, 2005
p. 183
Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History, eds. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, SUNY Press, 1989
p. 54
It came to be used as a male given name in the Perso-Arabic cultural sphere, and later also in

Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and mi ...

, . People named Mazlum include: * Mazlum Çimen, Turkish musician * Mazlum Doğan, Kurdish activist * Mazlum Kayalar, Turkish politician * a character in the medieval Arabic drama Delhemma'' Delhemma''

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